How did your compensation change when you were rehired?

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy

This is a great idea. How about this: After high school, you do 2 years of civil service. Then you go to college for free. After that, you do 2-4 more years of civil service, depending on how much school you do.

In the first 2 years, you grow up a bit, experience the real world, and earn a paycheck.

Next you go to college. Get a good liberal arts core and a major in your area of interest. Then spend a couple of years putting that learning to use and developing your skills.

Watch just the first minute of McCain’s concession speech. (Watch the whole thing if you like. It’s pretty good.)

I watched him shut down the boos about Obama at the beginning. He took this very seriously and wouldn’t allow the crowd to get out of line. It was well done, and a great example of statesmanship and fair play.

For just a moment then, I wondered if I had voted for the wrong man in voting for Obama, who was more of an unknown for me at the time. McCain acted very differently in the middle of good campaign, compared to the beginning and the end. I couldn’t support the policies, the attitude, or the man that I saw during the national campaign. Listening to John McCain’s concession speech that night, I remember thinking, "where was this person—this attitude—for the last few months? I might have voted for this person.” The party and the campaign forced him to become something that he wasn’t. If he had been allowed to be more authentic, I think that Obama would have had a narrower victory, if he had won at all.

Check out FreshRSS. You can self host, so if you have a home server, this will do the trick. Use your favorite reader app that can connect to it.

I get the subscription fatigue. I’m currently paying for Inoreader because I haven’t fully cut over to FreshRSS. It has good tools that are worth it for many, but all those subscriptions add up fast.

That’s no fridge… that’s a freezer!

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy

Now do iOS. (Yes I know Apple has to release their stranglehold on the browser first.)

Happy birthday to you
You belong in a zoo
You look like a monkey
And you smell like one too!

I like them both. Mastodon is great when I follow hashtags and the occasional person. I also like that I can follow Lemmy posters there. It means I can pay attention to individuals when I want.

Lemmy is great for threaded conversation. Mastodon can do this to a point, but it’s not a clean and navigable as Lemmy.

Imagine if I could subscribe to Mastodon hashtags within Lemmy!

Just c/LemmyTellU. That way we can have

c/LemmyTellU about this new thing

c/LemmyTellU that something is happening

Google successfully did this to XMPP.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html